Autonomous system
AS10279 WCCL-AS
Residential ARIN NSP
Summary
West Carolina Communications, LLC
residential broadband fiber telephone-cooperative south-carolina
WCCL-AS is the network of West Carolina Communications, the operating arm of West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative — a member-owned rural telco in Abbeville, South Carolina that today sells fiber internet, phone and TV under the West Carolina / Upcountry Fiber brands.
What it's used for
It carries the cooperative's own subscribers. West Carolina was founded in 1952 to bring telephone service to Abbeville and McCormick counties and the Starr-Iva area of Anderson County, and has since built out fiber across Greenwood and Newberry counties and into Columbia County, Georgia. The AS is the single path those homes and businesses take to the rest of the internet.
Notable
This is an eyeball network, not a carrier. RIS sees 130 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying 33,280 addresses but only 4 observed BGP neighbours. That combination is the tell: a wholesale transit business of this address size would peer with hundreds of networks, because selling transit is peering. Four neighbours means a couple of upstreams and nothing else — the traffic pattern of an access provider buying connectivity, not selling it.
The prefix list is a mosaic of unrelated /24s (152.44.x, 206.74.x, 207.144.x, 204.116.x, 164.153.x, 64.53.x) — the normal residue of a 70-year-old telco that acquired address space in dribs over decades. Crucially, the sampled reverse DNS is first-party (152-44-28-5.static.wctel.net, 206.74.132.5.static.wctel.net), so the scattered blocks are genuinely operated by the holder rather than leased out to third parties. Untidy allocation history, not an address-broker.
Interesting
The static.wctel.net naming across sampled space is consistent with a cooperative that hands out static addresses freely — a habit inherited from the ILEC era, and one most large ISPs abandoned.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange | Atlanta, United States | 206.126.110.58 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 35 prefixes · 33.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 35 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10279- Registry name
- WCCL-AS
- Registrant
- West Carolina Communications, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@wctel.com
- Registered
- 2012-09-19
- Last changed
- 2012-09-19
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- West Carolina Communications
- Also known as
- West Carolina Telephone WCFIBER/UPCOUNTRY FIBER
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-WCCOM- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.wctel.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 59% valid · 77 valid, 53 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 80 authorising AS10279
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 130 of 130 announcements
- Route objects
- 202 naming AS10279
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere